Blair, James H. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 750, Kerton Township
James H. Blair, blacksmith, was born in Lawrence Co., Ind., in 1833; in 1853 he emigrated to this township, where he commenced farming, but soon turned his hand to blacksmithing, at which he has succeeded well. Here he has had a family of 3 children, none of whom now survive. Independent. P. O., Marbletown.